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Indictment of former lawmaker prompts questions Legal experts weigh in on challenges for prosecution
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SNAP payments were halted during the government shutdown.
Attorney General Liz Murrill’s decision to seek an indictment of former House Speaker Clay Schexnayder in Baton Rouge prompted a series of legal questions Thursday. The biggest one is this: Can she prosecute him without knowing the location of an ancient cypress wood board at the heart of the case that was last seen 18 months ago in what was then his legislative office in Gonzales? Wednesday’s indictment charges that Schexnayder “knowingly and intentionally committed theft of a rare Louisiana state artifact.” Schexnayder served as speaker of the 105-member House from 2020-24, during the second term of then-Gov. John Bel Edwards. Murrill’s office has released few details on the indictment, saying it does not comment on pending criminal cases. But she has said the case is straightforward. “You don’t get to keep State property,” she said in a statement Wednesday. “It doesn’t belong to
November payments for the elderly and disabled in La. may include a little extra, governor added “We don’t want to load the card and take anything back. I don’t think it’s right if we penalize people if we give them something and then just take it back.”
BY ALYSE PFEIL Staff writer
Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry said Thursday that some people who get food stamp benefits may ultimately see a little extra in their accounts with the end of the federal government shutdown — and everyone on the program will get the full benefit amount for November. “I think the elderly and the disabled may get a little extra for Thanksgiving this year thanks to their governor and their Legislature,” Landry said during a radio interview on WBOK. The federal government stopped paying benefits for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program this month due to the shutdown,
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GOV. JEFF LANDRy leading Louisiana officials to step in and cover part of the benefits for elderly and disabled residents who use the program. Legal challenges spurred the Trump administration to begin paying partial benefits. With the government reopened, residents will get a full month’s worth of payments. Landry told Will Sutton, a WBOK
host and columnist for The TimesPicayune | The Advocate, that elderly and disabled recipients had already been issued 85% of their typical benefit payment, and they will receive an additional 35% for this month. “We don’t want to load the card and
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Clay Schexnayder served as speaker of the Louisiana House of Representatives from 2020 to 2024.
After hitting boy who shared fake nudes, girl is expelled Courier, the board allowed Boy faces criminal charges as Lafourche Parish school district faces backlash over AI incident Houma the girl to immediately return to
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victim of the fake photos because she hit one of the boys who shared Staff writer them. In a high-profile test of LouisiA Louisiana middle school has been rocked by AI-generated nude ana’s efforts to stop the spread of photos of an eighth grade girl, deepfakes, the boy was charged which resulted in criminal charges with 10 counts of disseminating for a boy who allegedly distributed explicit images of another person them and provoked outrage after created by artificial intelligence, the school district expelled the the Lafourche Parish Sheriff’s Of-
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fice said Monday. More students could still be charged. The girl told staffers at Sixth Ward Middle School in Thibodaux on Aug. 26 that she was being bullied due to the fake nude photos of her, according to lawyers representing her family. That afternoon, several boys displayed the photos in front of the girl on a school bus,
and she struck one of the boys. In response to the alleged assault, the school district expelled the girl from campus for at least 45 days. Her family appealed the expulsion and requested a public hearing, which the School Board conducted during its meeting last week. After the emotional hearing, which was first reported by The
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campus on probationary status. The 13-year-old returned to class Monday after being kept off campus for over two months, her lawyers said. “This girl was abused,” said Gregory Miller, one of the family’s attorneys, noting that she endured sexual exploitation and
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